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Division of Grants and Agreements (DGA)

Division Director: Jamie French

DGA's MISSION STATEMENT

DGA is responsible for the award of NSF grants and agreements recommended for support by NSF program offices. From pre-award through closeout, DGA conducts a variety of business, financial, and award administrative reviews to ensure compliance with award terms and conditions, NSF policies and procedures, and Federal rules and regulations.

As a customer-service oriented organization, DGA's team of dedicated grants officers, which is divided into three operational branches, are assigned an award portfolio under each of the Foundation's science Directorates and Offices.

(Note: the NSF Program Division for an award is denoted by the three letters that precede the award number. This can be used to identify the Grants Official and DGA team assigned to manage all awards under that Division's portfolio as designated on DGA's organization chart.)

To assist our awardee community, a reference guide with links to the various NSF offices involved with the Award Management process is provided below to help awardees quickly find the assistance or information needed. Also posted below is Foundation news impacting awardees as well as answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and related documents.

GUIDE TO AWARD MANAGEMENT ASSISTANCE

Award-specific questions?

Refer to your award letter and contact the Program Officer for any technical questions and the Grants Specialist for any administrative questions.

Always include the award number in any email or communications to assist us with responding to your inquiry.

Inquiries about continuing grant increments (CGIs)?

If your award identified incremental funding for subsequent years of the project, those funds are typically released upon approval of the annual progress report if funds are available. For any questions about these increments, please contact your cognizant NSF Program Officer for that award.

Find information on the full range of award-related policies from proposal preparation, project outcomes reporting, Career-Life Balance initiative, data management, merit review, and cost sharing, as well as NSF outreach on the NSF Policy Office site. Additional questions not addressed by information found on the Policy Office site can be emailed to: policy@nsf.gov

Questions about payments?

The Award Cash Management $ervice (ACM$) accessed on Research.gov allows awardees to submit cash requests and adjustments to open and closed awards, as well as award-level information on payments and award balances.

Prospective New Awardees (organizations that have never received an award from NSF or who have not had an active award over the past five years) under consideration for funding recommendation will be provided with the NSF Prospective New Awardee Guide and must return completed documentation to the cognizant DGA Grants Administrator.